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Agreed!! -----Original Message----- From: Tabitha Arnesen To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 2004-Jul-14 1:52 AM Subject: Re: NEW YORKER POEM Seems a bit Thom Gunn - esque to me as well... wouldnt call it INSPIRED though, as inspiiaration would suggest something a wee bit more original. --- Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Influenced? Probably, > but INSPIRED (however you spell it)? > > p. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gunnar Jauch > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: 2004-Jul-13 11:23 AM > Subject: NEW YORKER POEM > > > THE FATAL SHORE > > > > by William Logan > > 01 The horseshoe crab in frail armor plate, > broken up by javelin throw, > > lay in the sand like a cracked jam jar, > the son of some Troyan. > > 05 Achilles, too, arrived in medias res > at his mortal scene, > The booming foghorn, the groaning buoy > tide by tide by tide > > 09 Kept their mockeries to themselves. > Was there no end to them? > Lost Renaissance studies with sepia cast, > the dunes receded in perspective. > > 13 Fog lounged in the marsh shallows. > A soda-colored dawn again and again > rubbed salt into the clapboards, > collapsing upon a radiant wild-eyed dailiness. > > 17 Dullness, too, was my god. / > Tangled knobs of seaweed > drifted up the beach on a curt tide, > like Myrmidons out of work. > > > 01 The starfish, the hermit crab... > 02 the shattered lobsterpot... > 07 ...and the heaving groaner > 08 Rounded homewards > 10 Where is there an end of it, the soundless > wailing... > 13 The fog is in the fir trees. > 17 I don't know much about gods; but I think M. > Logan was inspierd by > The Dry Salvages! > > > Summer's greetings to y'all: > > > Gunnar > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com